I have been called to serve as a full-time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I have been assigned to Labor in the France, Lyon mission and this blog contains my journey for the next 18 months.

Monday, May 2, 2016

The Best For Last

Hey everyone! How is life? Good I hope!

So this week was a miracle week with a sad ending...

Monday:Monday we got to go to the lake with Soeur Yaka-Yake and SoeurWadsworth. It was fun to picnic there and just enjoy the scenery. Thenwe went and had a RDV with our ami Krisztina! It was just incredible!I don't think I've talked about Krisztina before... So I'll give alittle introduction. Krisztina is from Hungary. She is the cutestthing ever. She speaks French, Hungarian and English. She is engagedto a member of our ward and met the church when he invited her to cometo general conference with him. She has met with 3 different sets ofmissionaries and understands it all, she is so smart! She can teachthe lessons to her brother after we teach her, it's amazing. She askedus on Sunday if we would teach her about self-reliance, so of coursewe say yes! When we got there to teach her we had no clue what toteach on. Self-Reliance is such a big topic that we had no clue whatto teach. We decided to say a prayer and ask Heavenly Father to guideus and as soon as I said amen I knew exactly what we needed to teachher on. It was amazing. It was like a light switch had been turned on,her needs just hit me. It was super cool. So we went in and taught herand we knew exactly what to say. It was so cool. We gave her apersonal progress book and encouraged her to begin it. I never reallyrealized how much personal progress helped me until now! I havelearned so many different life lessons from personal progress.. If youhaven't finished it, I encourage you to do so! Anyways... The lessonwas wonderful and the spirit was so strong.

Tuesday:We went to the farm like always and it was fun. They're always so goodto us at the farm. I enjoy the opportunity to serve and learn and trynew things. It's the best (: Tuesday we also had a lot of lessons fallthrough so we just contacted and did some area book. I lovecontacting. It's a lot of fun getting to meet new people. When youmeet someone you can just tell how much the gospel would help themwith their life and how much they need it and you just have thisinstant love for them. It's amazing.Also, FINISHED THE BOOK OF MORMON! WOOT WOOT!

Wednesday:Wednesday was our miracle Wednesday! We started the morning meetingwith Souer Frene and it was wonderful! She is such a sweet lady. Weread with her from 1 Nephi 13 and she was telling us "This is whereChristopher Colombus came in right?" "This is where it talks aboutAmerica gaining independence right?" And stuff like that. She isamazing, she knows everything. I hope that sometime soon we find outwhat happened to make her not want to come to church anymore becausewe could use her sweet spirit back in our ward. After that, we wentand visited with our ami Fred at the church. He is progressing sowell. He has so many good questions, it's wonderful. He asked us howwe baptize people and what makes our church different and why the Bookof Mormon is important. We taught him the restoration and answered alot of his questions. It was so cool. He loves the baptismal font andthe chapel so much. He says that the spirit is strong there. SO COOL!After we visited him we met with Jeremie. He is a frustrating ami forus... He likes to just bash everything we say. When we asked him if itwould be important for him to know the truth he said no. It'sfrustrating, he needs to read the Book of Mormon and then pray aboutit. That is our goal for the future. Get him to read the Book ofMormon.

Thursday:Thursday we had district meeting. It was so much fun. We got to dothis thing called "bible prophecies" where we predicted where everyonewas going. It was so much fun!! Someone predicted that I would bestaying here in Yverdon to baptize all the drug dealers haha (Whichthere really aren't drug dealers because everything is legal here inSwiss). It was super fun. Then we went back and had dinner with theWard Missionaries here and they made MAC AND CHEESE for the American(: It was so cool.

Friday:Friday were transfer calls!! It was so funny. We expected president tocall us later in the day so Soeur Greciano jumped in the shower butturns out that he called while she was in the shower and when I toldher she thought that I was joking. Then she heard me talking topresident and jumped out of the shower, so that was funny. Well,moment of truth! I am staying in Yverdon! WOOT WOOT! But sad day,Soeur Greciano is going to France... I am receiving a sister namedSoeur Anderson. It's so cool. I am so excited.

Saturday:We got to meet with Soeur Frene again! She is so cute. We went andtold her Soeur Greciano was leaving and she was so sad. We had a finalparting words and it was awesome. She knows, and we know she knows. Iwant her to come back so bad. We then went and visited other peopleand got a new ami named Samuel! He is from Brazil and we are reallyexcited to teach him. He seems really interested.

Sunday:We got to have Easter dinner with the Pires Family. They are so sweet.Soeur Pires is my favorite. She asked me if I would teach her how todo genealogy and of course I said yes! She has a less active daughterwe are working with too so hopefully us being there will help her.